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A lesson in Search Engine Optimisation (SEO), that sadly lacks a definitive answer to the Tony Robbins / Inflatable Doll battle question you ask.

The opportunity to sell presented itself quickly, but the small business owners were ready from years of preparation. Here are the steps and costs involved.

If it sounds too good to be true…maybe you just don’t understand the deal. This Accountant couldn’t understand how a small business valuation could be so high!

We sold this Australian small business for a Valuation of Profit x 26. Here are the 4 reasons we used to convince the Buyer to happily pay so much more.

Yesterday we met the Australian small business I helped sell for 250 times profit. Today we look at Valuation Methodologies and why accountants are handcuffed.

The average small business in Australia sells for a Multiple of Profit x 2-4. Learn how we Valued this business at $5.8 million and sold it for Profit x 250.

One of my “bricks and mortar” business clients is expanding into the digital world, having identified a sizeable opportunity. This has meant engaging some technology partners and planning a capital raise, which I have been asked to oversee. We had the first meeting with the chosen partners last week, and after all the chat about…

Originally published on the Shirlaws Business Coaching Blog, 2007-2010. How to change So I think I have the answer to why, as they currently exist, social networks must ‘fail’. (You will have noted I put ‘fail’ in inverted commas. Many will succeed in their own way, by staying small and avoiding this issue. Most of those…